Tag: planets

For the past couple of decades, NASA has been investing in spacecraft to conduct up-close examinations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, ...

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after six months aboard China’s newest space station in the longest crewed mission ...

Earth’s northern and southern lights—the result of a rendezvous between magnetic fields, energized particles from the Sun, and our planet’s ...

Stephen Kane was searching for stars that could host planets with warm, temperate climates hospitable to life—you know, like Earth—when ...

By Leah Crane A selfie of the Perseverance Mars roverNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover has taken some of the most detailed ...

By Leah Crane The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short timeSPP 1992 (Patricia Klein) An extraordinarily ...

Kamo‘oalewa, an object that orbits the sun along with Earth, is unexpectedly red, leading researchers to suspect it came from ...

After NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it turned around and took pictures of the dwarf planet’s ...

A massive report on priorities for the next decade of US astronomy recommends building a telescope that could one day ...

We only had a skin-deep look at Jupiter before the Juno spacecraft began orbiting the planet in 2016 and the ...